Outboard Marine Corp. v. Holley

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that an award of reasonable expert witness fees is permissible under the Patent Act’s exceptional-case fee-shifting provision “only upon a finding of” exceptionality
• noting that an award of reasonable expert witness fees is permissible “only upon a finding of [an] ‘exceptional case’”
• affirming the district court’s 7 awarding of “fees for preparation of [prevailing party’s] motion for attorney fees” as part of the § 8 285 fee award
• “Section 285’s 15 requirement that the fees awarded be ‘reasonable’ is a safeguard against excessive 16 reimbursement.”
• “Interest on an attorney fee award thus runs from the date of the judgment establishing the right to the award, not the date of the judgment establishing its quantum.”
• relying on billing survey data

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).